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COUNTRY Cuba REPORT NO. CSc t-316/01228-64
SUBIECT Fernando FUENTES Coba DATE DISTR. 2 October 1964 ps
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED IHFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,

SOURCE A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

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Service until Apral 1964,
Headquartors Comments

The following report is one of a series containing personality
information provided by the source and includes supplemental
information from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addressees take no action on any
of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without

first checking with this Agency.

Fernando FUENTES Coba was a lieutenant in the Cuban Police
Force and worked in the Confidential Department under Commander

-Efigenio ALMEJEIRAS,, Chief of Police. Although source cannot

verify it, he heard that FUENTES was discharged from the police
force because of problems relating to drugs. The last source
heard of FUENTES, ne was working 1n a printing establishment

in Halifax, Canada, Source described FUENTES as being about
five feet cight inches tall and 160 pounds.!,2, 24,5,6,7

Headquarters Comments

1. Ineluded with a report dated 27 November 1959, was a
complete tist of the personnel employed by the Departamento
Tecnico de Investigacioncs (Technical Department of Investi-
gations - DTI) as of 6 November 1959. Included on the list,
was one Sargeant Fernando FUENTES Cobas who worked in
Bureau "A," the section responsible for foreign intelligence
operations for the Pulicia Nacional Revolucionaria (National

Revolutionary Police - PNR).

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2. An untested source gave a representative of this Agency a copy of!
a list of regulations issued on 15 May 1960 by the National
Revolutionary Police, which came under the Ministry of the Revolu-
tionary Armed Forces of Cuba, for the discipline of members of
the Servicio Seercto Revolucionario (Cuban Revolutionary Secret
Service - SSR). This document was signed by Fernando FUENTE Coba,
Chief of the Confidential Section of the General Command of the

National Revolutionary Police,

3. Ina report dated 19 May 1962, an untested source, who was a guide .
and interpreter for the ICAP, a Cuban government agency which mn .
handied the needs of foreign visitors to Cuba, said that First
Lieutenant Fernando COBAS was chief of the DTI until sometime in
1960 when he started. working for the Tourist Police, a part of
the PNR. In January ‘or February 1961, COBAS transferred to the

Transit Police,

‘4. In a report dated 20 September 1962, an untested source reported
that Fernando FUENTES Covas was with the Policia Transita (Transit

Police) in the DTI.

5. Another office of this Agency, in a report dated 26 December 1962, . t
reported that Fernando FUENTES Coba, a Cuban national, had been
convicted in 1957 of violation of the United States immigration
laws. FUENTES was engaged in forging birth certificates to assist
Cuban nationals to enter the United States as Puerto Ricans.
FUENTES moved to Miami, where he became an ardent Castrista. In
July 1959, he served as a provacateur in luring an American flyer,
Rafael dei PINO, to Cuba, ostehsibly to smuggle someone out of
Cuba. Because of his success in luring del PINO back to Cuba,
where he was badly wanted by the Castro regime, FUENTES received
an important position in the Confidential Bureau of the Cuban
G-2, and for a time served as chief of the Bureau.

6. On 29 January 1963, a source whose reliability: cannot be determined,
reported that he had seen Fernando FUENTES Coba, described as a
Castro agent, debark from the SS Shirley Lykes on 25 January 1963,
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7, Anfofficialpliaison service} reported on -25 February 1963, that
Ferfiando FUENTES Coba was Dorn on 21 June 1928, in Habana, Cuba. |
FUENTES was a former permanent resident of the United States from
1946 to 1949, and served in the United States Army. At the time of
this report FUENTES was described as a photographer with the
Tourist Commission in Habana, Source, in a report dated October
1963, reported that FUENTES was settled in Halifax, Canada, and

. had obtained temporary employment.

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